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Quakers (or Friends) are members of a Christian religious movement that started in England as a form of Protestantism in the 17th century, and has spread throughout North America, Central America, Africa, and Australia. Some Quakers originally came to North America to spread their beliefs to the British colonists there, while others came to ...
The Quaker Family in Colonial America: A Portrait of the Society of Friends (1973), emphasis on social structure and family life. Frost, J. William. "The Origins of the Quaker Crusade against Slavery: A Review of Recent Literature," Quaker History 67 (1978): 42–58. JSTOR 41946850. Hamm, Thomas. The Quakers in America.
A Elisabeth Abegg (1882–1974), German educator who rescued Jews during the Holocaust Damon Albarn (b. 1968), English musician, singer-songwriter and record producer Harry Albright (living), Swiss-born Canadian former editor of The Friend, Communications Consultant for FWCC Thomas Aldham (c. 1616–1660), English Quaker instrumental in setting up the first meeting in the Doncaster area Horace ...
Some Orthodox Quakers in America disliked the move towards evangelical Christianity and saw it as a dilution of Friends' traditional orthodox Christian belief in being inwardly led by the Holy Spirit. These Friends were headed by John Wilbur, who was expelled from his yearly meeting in 1842. He and his supporters formed their own Conservative ...
The Chase Chronicle, a publication of the Chase-Chace Family Association incorporated in Hartford Connecticut in 1899, contained articles of note about Col. Thomas Chase that gives perspective as to one of the reasons why some Quakers participated in the American Revolution, “When we stop to recall the Quaker Doctrine, it seems paradoxical to ...
Robeson-Bustill family (2 C, 11 P) Pages in category "American Quakers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 607 total.
The Clayton family is an old Quaker family that came to America with William Penn in 1682 and has been prominent politically, particularly in Pennsylvania and Delaware. In 1682 William Penn sailed for America with a large fleet of ships carrying immigrants. Perhaps most of these people were Quakers, but many were not.
The Cadwalader family is an American family of military and civilian leaders that were prominent from the late 18th through 19th centuries in Philadelphia and New Jersey. The progenitor of the family, John Cadwalader, was a Quaker who emigrated from Wales in part to escape religious persecution.